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Friday, November 23, 2007

Changelog uTorrent 1.8 Build 6415:2007-11-21: Version 1.8 alpha (build 6415)- Change: add resource version info properly, so Explorer tooltip works- Change: turn banned dlls in to vebose log messages and notes on the crashdump dialog- Change: Local peer discovery can now be controlled per-torrent through torrent properties- Change: Various changes to file retargetting feature based on user feedback- Change: Various changes to transfer tab text layout based on user feedback- Change: Added ability to autosize first column in the new add torrent listview by double-clicking the header divider- Change: Hide path column by default for now in add torrent listview- Change: The add torrent listview now remembers the column state (which columns are visible etc.) - Fix: crash bugs in selecting RSS feed from category view, and sorting RSS items- Fix: some minor memory leaks/size issues- Fix: remove noisy logging- Fix: crash bug with SOCKS5 proxies, and a problem with SOCKS4 proxies not connecting- Fix: Loading of single file torrents from custom-set complete directory- Fix: minor DHT improvement, prevents early termination of queries- Fix: Loading of torrents from certain directories (alpha-specific)- Fix: Total size refereshing in add torrent dialog when path is changed (alpha-specific) - Fix: Correct initial values of second tab of the torrent properties dialog (alpha-specific)- Fix: Various issues of reloading HTTP seeds when changed from torrent properties- Fix: HTTP seeds of torrents editing through torrent properties is now remembered between sessions- Fix: Loading of single file torrents from custom-set complete directory (very old bug, existed back to 1.6 and possibly before then)- Fix: Fix a bug where the value in the filename box would get appended to the folder name in the new vista open dialog- Fix: allow WebUI port and BT port to be the same without error (same as not setting the WebUI port)

--- 2007-11-13: Version 1.8 alpha (build 6104)- Feature: Support for file:// URLs- Feature: Use RSS feed title as alias if available- Feature: Last Active column- Feature: Use RSS feed TTL value if available- Feature: RSS title parsing available for all torrents in main window- Feature: Codec parsing from title- Feature: Smart episode filter will download repack for most recent episode with rss.smart_repack_filter- Feature: More support for http web seeds including support for torrents with multiple files, torrent creation with web seeds, and changing web seeds on the fly via torrent properties- Feature: Elapsed time column- Feature: Program start time in statistics window- Feature: Improved hashfail banning system (special thanks to the Azureus devs for describing their method)- Feature: Faster resume after a crash (does not re-check finished or flushed files)- Feature: Support FAST extensions- Feature: Basic auto-download setup available while adding RSS feeds- Feature: Metadata extension- Feature: Support %s (search term) and %v (version identifier) in search engine list- Feature: Support .btsearch files to add to search engine list- Feature: support for relative paths with .torrent files- Feature: Improved uTorrent UPnP mechanism. Should map correctly on routers that only send NOTIFY packets, uses XP API where functional, and maps UDP port now too- Change: User-Agent for web usage is now "BTWebClient/" plus uT version- Change: Added a tracker and transfers tab to help spread out the information a bit- Change: uTorrent now fetches paths using shfolder.dll so that it can get the correct APPDATA path for Windows 95. If you are on a similar system you will need to download shfolder.dll from Microsoft if you do not have a later version of Internet Explorer installed.- Change: Change addtorrent dialog treeview into a listview so it can be sorted + have a selection rectangle et al.- Change: uTorrent now uses the user's download folder on Vista by default, rather than the custom %HOMEPATH%\Downloads- Change: utorrent.exe now has version, company, and product metadata- Change: prio_first_last_piece now prioritizes first and last megabyte of file instead of only the piece on the edge- Change: diskio.sparse_files is now enabled by default- Change: RSS feeds listed in category view, items in main window- Change: Removed now-redundant feeds and releases tabs from RSS Downloader window- Change: RSS button on toolbar now brings up Add Feed dialog- Change: rss.filters_use_default_dir determines if default download folder is used for filter matches when filter or settings do not specify a download path- Change: do not use adapter subnets to detect local peers. seems to result in many false-positives- Change: Add torrent uses .torrent storage path as default search path- Change: allow a manual reannounce every max(60 seconds, min_interval) where min_interval is from the tracker- Change: remove non-US supporting site from search list- Change: queue RSS feed updates- Change: ";" no longer separates skip files in Create Torrent since it is a valid filename character in Windows- Change: no more blank white screen when the WebUI is not installed, instead an informative message and a link (also 404s for other resource requests)- Fix: Implement ability to change trackers for a torrent from webui - Fix: When creating a .torrent file, all files are now sorted regardless of file system - Fix: Logic error where it would not copy the .torrent to the storage path if only part of the path was matched- Fix: Bug where BT backend didn't take into account alt .torrent storage path- Fix: "&" characters in label names within the main download list context menu no longer become accelerators and display normally- Fix: Last line of ipfilter.dat is loaded if it does not end with a carriage return- Fix: Close file handles during hashchecking, instead of all at the end- Fix: Properly open RSS releases with quotes in title- Fix: Fixed several cases where UPnP would not unmap the portmapping on exit- Fix: when a modal dialog is active other windows that are not its parent can recieve input